Redacted

As you can read, tis blog does not get copy read or edited except by the reader.

Redaction is a form of editing in which multiple source texts are combined (redacted) and altered slightly to make a singledocument. Often this is a method of collecting a series of writings on a similar theme and creating a definitive and coherent work.

The term is also used to describe removal of some document content, replacing it typically with black rectangles that indicate the removal, although this usage was not documented by authorities such as the Oxford English Dictionary as of 2016, though earlier editions gave only this definition. For example, originally classified documents released under freedom of information legislation may have sensitive information redacted in this way. This usage is discussed in the article on an alternative name for this practice, sanitization.

Some might call this process as censoring. Some might call it hiding the truth.

If not for editing for a proper Oxford style, then is this information “classified”? What kind of password or secret handshake is necessary to allow viewing (and possibly commenting on) this information “For Your Eyes Only”?

Reading in college, where you had to buy the textbook, highlighters were invented to mark the important lines that will probably reference to a test. What about the rest of it?

If the words don’t explain a lead in to the important information, then it is all fluff. If you redacted all that wasted verbiage; the textbook could be much smaller. Maybe the pertinent information could be bullet points? Could have spent more time partying.

With the idea of ‘Freedom of Speech’ on everyone’s mind, not being allowed to read ‘redacted’ text just offends. Whether the reason is ‘security’ or ‘personal’ or ‘this information is blocked’ just means you are not qualified to read it.

The same thing happens in relationships. We say and do things that are redacted from other individuals.

Time to shred.